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RE: Day 16 - Selfie Freewrite Celebration Contest - Prize 90.999 SBD

in #contest7 years ago

I'm guessing it was probably forgotten as soon as I said it and tuned out as little kid nonsense questions.

In my experience having grown up with a lot of very wealthy kids, their parents tended to pay lip service to humanitarianism without really doing much, but the kids who had grown up in privilege often were super well aware of the situation, if only out of guilt. The thing is that if you're born into that kind of wealth here, your parents are likely liberal Hollywood types. It's not like in NYC where people's parents have Wall Street money and borderline libertarian ideals, or Texas, where people have oil money. The odds are that you'd go to a high school that was based in a liberal arts type of education. Of course some people just end up as playboys spending their days floating around in their pool and having extravagant parties, but a lot of people end up working in nonprofits or something. It can really go either way. The three wealthiest people my age I have ever met in my life--like billionaire money--are all kind of f'd up over the guilt and ended up dedicating their lives to helping the less fortunate.

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It is too bad that they are doing it out of guilt - but it is good that they are doing it. there is such a great divide between the haves and the have-nots. Sadly, it is only getting worse. On a global scale. I still believe that as individuals, we can do a lot. A little circle of kindness spread around us goes a long way!!